Images are not neutral conveyors of messages that are sent around the globe in order to reach a global audience. They represent a force that can trigger very different reactions and counteract new visual tendencies towards hegemony within a global world. The volume contains a co…
"Le moderne dédaigne d'imaginer" disait Mallarmé. Poètes, peintres, dramaturges ou ingénieurs voulaient alors mettre l'union de la forme et de l'acte à la place de la vieille dualité de la réalité et de l'image. La vie en eût été révolutionnée. Nos contemporains ne croient plus …
The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can b…
Während das Gesicht gern als natürlicher Ausdruck von Persönlichkeit und Charakter betrachtet wird, sind uns die Gesichter der nicht mehr Lebenden nur als Artefakte bekannt: als Produkte handwerklicher, künstlerischer, poetischer, medialer, technischer Verfahren.
"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West ; semiotics ; whether images are produc…
